Tech Talk

Top Chief Information Officers today are concerned enterprises’ directions towards the mobility workforce and the fast-moving dynamics of mobile Apps that open up the doors for opportunistic hackers. Jason Flanagan, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific & Japan for Getronics and Mukul Jain, Chief Sales Officer Asia Pacific & Japan for Getronics talks about mobility workforce and IT security and the best route to adopt CYOD.

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Gabey Goh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about the MSC status process that recently came under scrutiny over MOLPay Application as the approval committee now dictates pricing terms for company to be accorded MSC status. More details at http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/digital-economy/msc-status-process-comes-under-scrutiny-over-molpay-application. Followed SEA chat app war and how KakaoTalk wants to be "The One" when it comes to users preference and Kurechii Studio heading for the big leagues.

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Mobility continues to change the way we do business at a dramatic rate. Ten years ago, no one was talking about bring-your-own-device (BYOD). Five years ago, smartphones represented just 22 percent of US handset sales – a share projected to reach 63% percent in 2014. A new study by Citrix titled Mobility in Business shows that although 63 percent of enterprises believe that enabling mobile working delivers a competitive edge, 53 percent of businesses lack a formal mobility strategy. What exactly is a formal mobility strategy and how important is it for businesses? Mark Micallef, Area Vice President ASEAN for Citrix explains.

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Avnet Technology Solutions established in 1921 and for Malaysia, it started its business in 1996. With more than 17 years of experience in the Malaysian market, we speak to Christopher Siah from Avnet Technology on the overview of the ICT sector and the role ot IT distribution and IT distributors.

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Viber is a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet-Protocol applications for smartphones developed by Viber Media. We speak to Talmon Marco, founder and CEO of Viber to talk about user behaviours and the role that telco providers should play.

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Squawking alone, Jeff Sandhu talks about a study by researchers from Princeton University on how Facebook might lose 80% of their users by 2017 based on complex calculations and Google Trends. If you have shares in Facebook, you might wanna listen in.

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We often talk about the ways tech companies track our online lives. Now, it seems, they’re exploring ways to follow us offline too. According to Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage, this is the Meat Space and data companies want their slice.

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Karamjit Singh and A. Asohan talks about the first DNA-TeAM Disrupt forum of the year with the theme around What’s Hot (or not) in 2014 and also, a special announcement on DNA’s first print publication titled Digerati50.

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Many have been predicting that the end of personal computing as we know it today will die. However in 2013, shares of Hewlett-Packard on the NYSE shot up 97%, more than tripling the 29% return of the S&P 500. If you think the PC world is dying, think again. Serena Yong, General Manager PPS Singapore at Hewlett-Packard Sales talks about what happened in 2013 and what can we expect in 2014.

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The second phase of High-Speed Broadband project under the National Broadband initiative is expected to increase the speed and extend the access areas in the urban, suburban and rural areas. While high-speed access to the Internet will benefit many citizens, the global increase of broadband adoption also increases the malicious cyberspace activities in a country, resulting in higher risks of cyber threats to users. Koh Ee Laine, Senior Technical Consultant for Symantec Malaysia talks about bridging the knowledge divide on online safety literacy.

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